A colloid’s particle size is smaller than a suspension but larger than a solution. The particles in a colloid are spread throughout the mixture and are small enough to pass through a coffee filter.

Two-phase equilibrium: A binary colloidal mixture can exist in up to six phases at the same time. (Courtesy: R Tuiner) A binary colloidal mixture can exist in up to six phases at the same time, ...

Colloids are mixtures containing solids in liquid or liquid in liquid and all of these contain distinct solid (and/or liquid) particles which are dispersed to various degrees in a liquid medium ...

In their paper, the researchers demonstrate a method for using a colloidal suspension to create crystals with the uniform structures needed for high-end technologies. Essentially, the researchers show ...

Called colloidal suspensions, these mixtures include things like milk or fog. Under certain conditions, these dispersed particles can combine into crystals.

Five different phases of a colloid-polymer mixture can co-exist at the same time, in defiance of the 150-year-old Gibbs phase rule, which states that only three simultaneous phases are possible. The ...

This mechanism for forming colloidal crystals was well known, but what was observed next was quite surprising. On heating, the colloidal crystal melted to form a liquid polymer-colloid mixture.

A colloid is a mixture in which tiny particles of one substance are scattered throughout another substance. Butter is a colloid mixture of tiny water particles dispersed in fat.

Temperature can switch the thermodynamic phase of colloid–polymer mixtures by tipping the balance between competing attractive interactions induced by polymer depletion or adsorption.